“I’ve played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.”

You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it’s not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.

The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.

A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

Sometimes when you’re playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That’s much more interesting to me, rather than just playing ‘intense.’ I find it too boring.

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

I don’t want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.

It’s always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.

Hollywood isn’t ready for an Indian leading man.

I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

When you come out of the theatre and you don’t even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.

I can’t think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.

I’m trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you’re lacking inside, you’ve fulfilled that.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty – he has suffered longer.

I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile.

You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.

Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.

Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.